Data Center Life Cycle Services: Design

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White Paper #160
Specification of Modular Data Center Architecture

There is a growing consensus that conventional legacy data center design will be superseded by modular scalable data center designs. Reduced total cost of ownership, increased flexibility, reduced deployment time, and improved efficiency are all claimed benefits of modular scalable designs. Yet the term modular”, when and where modularity is appropriate, and how to specify modularity are all poorly defined. This paper creates a framework for modular data center architecture and describes the various ways that modularity can be implemented for data center power, cooling, and space infrastructure and explains when the different approaches are appropriate and effective.
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Failure to adopt modular standardization as a design strategy for data center physical infrastructure (DCPI) is costly on all fronts: unnecessary expense, avoidable downtime, and lost business opportunity. Standardization and its close relative, modularity, create wide-ranging benefits in DCPI that streamline and simplify every process from initial planning to daily operation, with significant positive effects on all three major components of DCPI business value – availability, agility, and total cost of ownership.
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A framework for benchmarking a future data center’s operational performance is essential for effective planning and decision making. Currently available criticality or tier methods do not provide defensible specifications for validating data center performance. An appropriate specification for data center criticality should provide unambiguous defensible language for the design and installation of a data center. This paper analyzes and compares existing tier methods, describes how to choose a criticality level, and proposes a defensible data center criticality specification. Maintaining a data center’s criticality is also discussed.
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Data Center Reference Designs

Designing and building a data center can be a headache. That’s why Schneider Electric has mapped out an easy way to plan, build and deploy a data center with Data Center Reference Designs.

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Data Center Life Cycle Services

Life can be hard but running your data center doesn't have to be - at least when you use Schneider Electric's Data Center Life Cycle Services.

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The Value of Data Center Life Cycle Services

The role of data centers in business has never been more critical. Services are key to designing, starting up, and operating a data center at peak performance while assuring availability. Schneider Electric is here to help with our data center life cycle services offer organized under one Schneider Electric umbrella.